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Asian business confidence gains steam, pandemic still top risk: Thomson Reuters

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SINGAPORE - Asian firms turned most optimistic in the fourth quarter this year, a Thomson Reuters INSEAD survey showed, as business activity picked up in the region and COVID-19 vaccines started rolli

ng out in Western countries ahead of their Asian launch.

"There's a sense of optimism going forward," said Antonio Fatas, Singapore-based economics professor at global business school INSEAD. While the United States and Britain have already started vaccinating their populations, few Asian countries expect to get significant amounts of coronavirus vaccines in the coming weeks.

Yet others flagged as their top risks a withdrawal of stimulus by central banks, and newly elected United States President Joe Biden keeping a tough line on China. A recovery to pre-pandemic levels in China, the world's second-largest economy, has fuelled revival hopes. Equity markets in China, South Korea and Taiwan are up at least 20 percent this year, leading the region's gains.

 

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